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Ocean-going jumbos possibly disoriented
Wildlife experts have not been able to adequately explain why a few elephants had been sighted in distress in the oceans closer to shore in the east and even in the deep seas. Some suspect they had...
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Fishing net may have killed dugong and calf
Wildlife offcials suspect that the carcass of a female dugong found afloat in the northern seas off Mollikulam on Thursday July 27 with a new-born calf may have been drowned after being trapped in a...
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Living with landslides: Community-based programme teaches combat techniques
As landslide deaths become increasingly regular in Sri Lanka during heavy rains, a community-based science programme offers a life-saving mechanism. Getting to know about an imminent landslide even a...
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Nandikadal lagoon fish perished without oxygen, says NARA
Published on SundayTimes on 11.06.2017 – http://www.sundaytimes.lk/170611/news/nandikadal-lagoon-fish-perished-without-oxygen-says-nara-244783.html Thousands of fish seen floating in the Nandikadal and...
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Sinharaja elephant attacks raise villager fury
Published on SundayTimes on 28.05.2017 – http://www.sundaytimes.lk/170528/news/sinharaja-elephant-attacks-raise-villager-fury-242684.html Sri Lanka’s biodiversity hotspot, Sinharaja, is home to two...
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Sampur pilot whales stranding will remain a mystery
Published on SundayTimes on 04.06.2017 http://www.sundaytimes.lk/170604/news/sampur-pilot-whales-stranding-will-remain-a-mystery-243484.html A pod of about 20 pilot whales stranded on Sampur beach in...
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Roadkill leads to discovery of burrowing snake
A new burrowing snake was added to the list of species endemic to Sri Lanka when International Day of Biological Diversity was marked on Monday, strengthening the country’s image as a biodiversity...
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They are marine eels, not sea snakes
Reports that swarms of what were initially mistakenly identified as venomous sea snakes had got caught in fishing nets in the east coast, had many puzzled and others worried with rumours spreading of...
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විදිමින් පරිසරය, අරඹමු නව වසර කුරුලු ගී සමගින්
WISH YOU ALL A NATUREFUL NEW YEAR..!!! Today is the last day of year 2017. I couldn’t write as much I wanted in year 2017; but managed to compile a weekly column for Vidusara titled ‘ගෙවත්තේ ජෛව...
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අරඹමු නව වසර, සිටුවා පැළයක්‌ ගෙවත්තේ
ලැබූ 2018 වසර නම් කර තිබෙන්නේ ආහාර නිෂ්පාදනයේ වසර ලෙසයි. ජලය, වාතය මෙන් ම ආහාර අප ගේ මූලික අවශ්‍යතාවක්‌ වුවත් ආහාර නිෂ්පාදනයේ අඩුව, නිපදවූ ආහාරවල ගුණාත්මකභාවය, අනවශ්‍යය ලෙස කෘෂි රසායන යෙදීම වැනි කරුණු...
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Don’t frighten leopards out of existence
Experts urge care in human collisions with top predator Published on SundayTimes on 14.01.2018 http://www.sundaytimes.lk/180114/news/dont-frighten-leopards-out-of-existence-277089.html Last week’s...
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Get on with total bottom trawling ban say conservationists
Published on SundayTimes on 28.01.2018 http://www.sundaytimes.lk/180128/news/get-on-with-total-bottom-trawling-ban-say-conservationists-278835.html Sri Lanka passed laws to ban destructive bottom...
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වැඩි අවධානයක්‌ නො ලැබෙන ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ කැළෑ බළල්ලු
Published as the cover story of Vidusara on 14.02.2018. ලෝකයේ බිළාල කුලයේ සාමාජිකයන් 40 දෙනෙකි. මෙයින් 33 දෙනකු ම අයත් වන්නේ කුඩා බිළාලයන් (small wild cats) කොටසට වේ. විශාල ගණයේ බිළාල සාමාජිකයන් 7 දෙනා...
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Porpoise completes Lanka’s full hand of cetacean wonders
Sri Lankan waters are home to 30 species of marine mammals, including dugongs, whales and dolphins. Now the remaining member of the cetacean group, the porpoise, officially joins this list....
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ගෙවත්තේ රැඟුම් වැයුම් දක්වන වැලන්ටයින්ලා
Published on විදුසර 21.02.2018 as part of my series of articles ‘ගෙවත්තේ ජෛව විවිධත්වය’ [Biodiversity of Home gardens]. Click on this link to open a .pdf of the page – ගෙවත්තේ රැඟුම් වැයුම් දක්වන...
View ArticleEarth Day – Every single individual matters
#Earth_Day: Today – 22nd of April- is the ‘EARTH DAY’. Have you noticed the popular search engine Google had following as its GoogleDoodle today..? Visit the link to read Earth Day message by leading...
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Calls to protect Colombo’s urban wildlife as dead otter discovered near...
World Otter Day falls on Wednesday (May 30); but an unfortunate otter inhabiting the marshes of Kotte, close to Parliament, did not live to see this day...
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Floating lifeline to rescue dying Bar Reef
Scientists hope a line of buoys enclosing threatened sections of the Bar Reef will provide a lifeline for the dying marine sanctuary. Published on SundayTimes on 13.05.2018...
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Clicking not just a picture but a story
Amanda Samani Jayawardhana who specialises in conceptual photography to hold her maiden exhibition. Published on SundayTImes on 18.06.2018...
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කලකදී සැඟව යන ගව කොකා (Cattle Egret)
Cattle Egret is a common bird – but can you spot this bird in your area these days..? The photos show ground of University of Colombo on the morning of 26th of May 2018. There were 55 Cattle Egrets...
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